A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Girls
Baculianao, Eric. "China grapples with legacy of its 'missing girls'." NBC 14 Sept. 2004.*
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5953508/#.UStJiRnsb64
2013
Bilston, Sarah. The Awkward Age in Women's Popular Fiction, 1850-1900: Girls and the Transition to Womanhood. (Oxford English Monographs). Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004.
Breda, Thomas, and Clotilde Napp. "Girls' Comparative Advantage in Reading Can Largely Explain the Gender Gap in Math-Related Fields." https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1905779116
2019
Davis, Amy. Good Girls and Wicked Witches: Women in Disney's Feature Animation. London: John Libbey, 2007.
Douglas, Susan J. The Rise of Enlightened Sexism: How Pop Culture Took Us from Girl Power to Girls Gone Wild. New York: St. Martin's, 2010.
Eckert, Penelope. "Cooperative Competition in Adolescent 'Girl Talk'." Discourse Processes 13.1 (1990). Rpt. in Gender and Conversational Interaction. Ed. Deborah Tannen. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1993. 32-61.
Eder, Donna. "Serious and Playful Disputes: Variation in Conflict Talk among Female Adolescents." In Conflict Talk. Ed. Allen Grimshaw. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990. 67-84.
La Gaceta. "Irán permite matrimonios con niñas de entre 10 y 14 años ante el silencio de la izquierda y del feminismo occidental." La Gaceta 8 March 2021.*
2021
Hopkins, K. "The Age of Roman Girls at Marriage." Population Studies 18.3 (March 1965): 309-27.
Johnson, Samuel. "A Young Lady's Impatience of Control." The Rambler (84). 1750-2. London: Dent; New York: Dutton, 1953.*
Karlyn, Kathleen Rowe. Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers: Redefining Feminism on Screen. Austin (TX): U of Texas Press, 2011.
Luppé (Compte de) Les Jeunes Françaises au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Redier, 1932.
McRobbie, Angela. "The Culture of Working-Class Girls." In McRobbie, Feminism and Youth Culture. 2nd ed. Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000.
_____. "Jackie Magazine: Romantic Individualism and the Teenage Girl." In McRobbie, Feminism and Youth Culture. 2nd ed. Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000.
_____. Feminism and Youth Culture: From Jackie to Just 17. (Youth Questions). Houndmills: Macmillan, 1999. 2nd ed. Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000.
McRobbie, Angela, and Jenny Garber. "Girls and Subcultures." In McRobbie, Feminism and Youth Culture. 2nd ed. Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000.
Mernissi, Fatema. Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood. 1994.
_____. (Fatima Mernissi). Sueños en el umbral: Memorias de una niña en el harén. Non-fiction. Trans. Angela Pérez. Barcelona: Muchnik, 1995.
_____. Sueños en el umbral: Memorias de una niña del harén. Trans. Ángela Pérez. (Quinteto, 9). Barcelona: Muchnik, 2002.*
Meyenn, R. J. "School Girls' Peer Groups." In Pupils Strategies: Explorations in the Sociology of the School. Ed. P. Woods. London: Croom Helm, 1980. 108-42.
Ojeda Alba, Julieta. "The Role of Little Girls in the Life and Literature of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Lewis Carroll." Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica 26 (2000): 235-45.*
Radner, Hilary. Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks, and Consumer Culture. London: Routledge, 2011.
Reeve, Elspeth. "Girls Just Want to Be Heard." New Republic 31 March 2016.*
https://newrepublic.com/article/132110/girls-just-wanna-heard
2016
Riestra Camacho, Rocío. "An American Tale of Vampires: Narrative Identity Projections in Anorexia." In Storyworld Possible Selves and Character Intersubjectivity. Ed. María-Ángeles Martínez. (Narratologia, 96). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2025. 19-35.*
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111481579-002
2026
Saxton, Ruth O., ed. The Girl: Constructions of the Girl in Contemporary Fiction by Women. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1998.
Sharpe, Sue. Just Like a Girl. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976. (School, ch. 4).
Shrier, Abigail. Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. 2020.
Sutton-Smith, Brian. "The Play of Girls." In Women in Context. Ed. C. B. Kopp and M. Kirkpatrick. New York: Plenum, 1979.
Vallone, Lynne. Disciplines of Virtue: Girls' Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. New Haven: Yale UP, 1995.
Walkerdine, Valerie. Daddy's Girl: Young Girls and Popular Culture. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1997.
Winship, Janice. "A Girl Needs to Get 'Street-wise'." Feminist Review 21 (1985): 25-46.
Wittke, G. Female Initiation in the American Novel. 1991.
Films
Amélie. Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet. With Audrey Tatou. 2001.
An Education. Dir. Lone Scherfig. Written by Nick Hornby. Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Rosamund Pike, Dominic Cooper, Olivia Williams, Emma Thompson, Carey Mulligan. UK: BBC Films, 2009. DVD: An Education Distribution / E1 Entertainment, 2010.*
Bridesmaids. Dir. Paul Feig, 2011.
Bridget Jones's Diary. Dir. Sharon Maguire. Screenplay by Helen Fielding, Andrew Davies, Richar Curtis, based on the novel by Helen Fielding. Cast: Renée Zellwegger, Hugh Grant, Colin firth, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones. Universal Pictures Studiocanal / Miramax / Working Title, 2001.*
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. Dir. Beevan Kidron. Written by Helen Fielding; screenplay by Andrew Davies, Helen Fileding, Adam Brooks, Richard Curtis. Cast: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones, Jacinda Barrett, Sally Phillips, James Faulkner, Celia Imrie, James Callis. Music by Harry Gregson-Williams. Cinematogrpahy by Adrian Biddle. Film ed. Greg Hayden. Prod. des. Gemma Jackkson. Art dir. Paul Inglis, Tommy Vögel, David Warren. Costumes by Jany Temime. Prod. Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Jonathan Cavendish. Exec. prod. Debra Hayward, Liza Chasin. Universal, 2004.
_____. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. DVD. (SpeakUp Video). Barcelona: RBA / Universal, 2005.*
Career Girls. Dir. Mike Leigh. Cast: Katrin Cartlidge, Lynda Steadman, Kate Byers, Mark Benton, Andy Serkis, Joe Tucker, Margo Stanley, Michael Healy. Music by Tony Remy and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. 20th Century Fox, 1997. VHS.*
Clueless. Dir. Amy Heckerling. With Alicia Silverstone. USA, 1995.
The Fallout. Written and dir. Megan Park. Cast: Jenna Ortega, Maddie Ziegler, Niles Fitch, Will Ropp, Lumi Pollack, John Ortiz, Julie Bowen, Shailene Woodley. 2021. IMDb:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11847410/
2022
Lars and the Real Girl. Dir. Craig Gillespie. 2007.
Legally Blonde. Dir. Robert Luketic. 2001.
The Girl. Dir. Sande Zeig. Based on the novel by Monique Wittig.
Little Women. Dir. George Cukor. Based on the novel by Louise Marie Alcott. With Katherine Hepburn. 1933.
Little Women. Dir. Gillian Armstrong. 1994.
Lost and Delirious. Dir. Léa Pool. Screenplay by Judith Thompson, based on the novel Wives of Bath by Susan Swan. Cast: Piper Perabo, Jessica Paré, Mischa Barton, Jackie Burroughs, Mimi Kuzyk, Graham Greene, Emily Vankamp, Amy Stewart, Caroline Dhavernas, Luke Kirby. Photog. Pierre Gill. Music by Yves Chamberland. Art dir. Serge Bureau. Ed. Gaëtan Huot. Canada, 2001.
Mean Girls. Dir. Mark Waters. 2004.
Northanger Abbey. Dir. Jon Jones. Screenplay by Andrew Davies, based on the novel by Jane Austen. Cast: Felicity Jones, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Desmond Barrit, John Thorpe, J. J. Feild, Carey Mulligan, Bernadette McKenna, Shauna Taylor, Sophie Vavasseur, Hugh O'Connor, Catherine Walker, Liam Cunningham, Mark Dymond. Composer Charlie Mole. Prod. Des. David Wilson. Ed. Sue Wyatt. Photog. Ciarán Tanham. Exec. Prod. Charles Elton. Co-pros. James Flynn and Morgan O'Sullivan. Prod. Keith Thompson. Ireland: Granada Television, 2006. YouTube (Harpier Noctem) 6 June 2014.*
2020
The Quiet Girl (Irish: An Cailín Ciúin). Written and directed by Colm Bairéad. Based on the 2010 short story "Foster" by Claire Keegan. Cast: Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley and Andrew Bennett. Ireland, 2022. Online at DailyMotion (PicturePerfectChannel) 2024.*
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8yk85i
2024
A Pin for the Butterfly. Written and dir. Hannah Kodicek. Cast: Florence Hoath, Hugh Laurie, Joan Plowright, Ian Bannen, Imogen Stubbs, Ian Hogg. Prod. des. Jiri Matolin. Photog. Ivan Slapeta. Ed. Kant Pan. Musicby Ilona Sekacz. Exec. prod. Ann Skinner. Prod. James Crawford. UK/Czechoslovakia, 1994. Online at YouTube (Danny Kodicek) 24 March 2013.*
2017
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. TV film. With Geraldine McEwan. Exec. Prod. Beryl Vertue. Prod. Richard Bates. Scottish TV.
Images
García Landa, José Angel. "Chicas de verano." Photograph. In García Landa, Vanity Fea 16 July 2026.*
https://blogdenotasvanityfea.blogspot.com/2026/07/chicas-de-verano.html
2026
Literature
Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women. Novel. 1868.
_____. Little Women. (Nelson Classics). London: Nelson.
_____. Mujercitas. (Colección Iris). Barcelona: Bruguera, c. 1959.
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Wintergirls. New York: Viking, 2009.
Cline, Emma. The Girls. Fiction. 2016.
_____. Las chicas. (Panorama de Narrativas, 929). Barcelona: Anagrama, c. 2017.
Delmar, Viña. Bad Girl. Fiction. c. 1928.
Dryden, John. "A Song ('Fair, sweet and young, receive a prize')." From Miscellany Poems, 1693. In The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse. Ed. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934. Rpt. 1938, 1942, 1946. 885-6.*
_____. "Song to a Fair Young Lady going out of Town in the Spring." From Miscellany Poems, 1704. In The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse. Ed. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934. Rpt. 1938, 1942, 1946.*
Duffy, Carol Ann. The Oldest Girl in the World. Faber and Faber, 2000.
Espina, Concha. La niña de Luzmela. Novel. 1909. (Set in Mazcuerras, later "Luzmela").
Evaristo, Bernardine. Girl, Woman, Other. 2019. (Booker Prize 2019).
Fielding, Helen. Bridget Jones's Diary. (Novel, and coauthor in screenplay for the film).
Fortún, Elena. Stories in Gente menuda (children's suppolement of Blanco y negro).
_____. (Celia). Series of novels for girls. Madrid: Aguilar; rpt. Alianza Juvenil and Renacimiento.
_____. Celia lo que dice. Girls' novel. (Celia, 1). Madrid: Aguilar, 1929.
_____. Celia lo que dice. Prologue by Carmen Martín Gaite. (Alianza Juvenil). Madrid: Alianza, 1992.
_____. Celia en el colegio. Girls' novel. (Celia, 2). Madrid: Aguilar, 1932.
_____. Celia novelista. Girls' novel. (Celia, 3). Madrid: Aguilar, 1934.
_____. Celia en el mundo. Girls' novel. (Celia, 4). Madrid: Aguilar, 1934.
_____. Celia y sus amigos. Girls' novel. (Celia, 5). Madrid: Aguilar, 1935.
_____. Celia madrecita. Girls' novel. (Celia, 6). Madrid: Aguilar, 1939.
_____. Celia en la Revolución. Ms. 1943. 1st ed. Madrid: Aguilar, 1987.
Hassman, Tupelo. Girlchild. Novel. 2012.
hooks, bell. Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
Huysmans, Joris-Karl. Marthe, historie d'une fille. Novel. 1876.
Kaschnitz, Marie-Luise. "La niña gorda." Short story. 1952. Trans. Santiago Martín Arnedo. Hermeneus 15 (2013): 409-15.*
Kaysen, Susanna. Girl, Interrupted. (Borderline personality disorder)
Kincaid, Jamaica. "Girl." In Literature and Gender. Ed. Lizbeth Goodman. London: Routledge / Open U, 1996. 2001. 302.*
Laforet, Carmen. La isla y los demonios. (Destinolibro, 38). Barcelona: Destino, 1991.
Lope de Vega. La moza de cántaro. In Comedias escogidas de Frey Lope Félix de Vega Carpio, juntas en colección y ordenadas por Don Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch. Tomo primero. Madrid: Rivadeneyra, 1853. 549-65.*
Mantel, Hilary. An Experiment in Love. Novel. London: Viking, 1995.*
Martín Gaite, Carmen. El pastel del diablo. Fiction. Barcelona: Lumen, 1985.
_____. El castillo de las tres murallas. Barcelona: Lumen, 1988.
_____. Caperucita en Manhattan. Madrid: Siruela, 1990.
McCarthy, Mary. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood. 1963.
Messud, Claire. La niña en llamas. (Galaxia Gutenberg, 193). Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg.
"Michael Field." Poems ("Maids, not to you my mind doth change", 1889 "A Girl", 1893, "Unbosoming", 1893; "It was deep April, and the morn," 1893; "To Christina Rossetti," 1896; "Nests in Elms," 1908; "Eros," 1908). 1889. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, with Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 2.1740-45.*
Montgomery, L. M. Anna of Green Gables. Children's book. 1908.
_____. Anna of Green Gables. New York: Norton, 2013.
Moran, Caitlin. How to Build a Girl. Random House UK, c. 2018.
_____. Cómo se hace una chica. (Panorama de Narrativas, 895). Barcelona: Anagrama.
Munro, Alice. Lives of Girls and Women. USA: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1971.
_____. Lives of Girls and Women. London: Allen Lane, 1983.
_____. Lives of Girls and Women. London: Penguin, 1983.
_____. Lives of Girls and Women. London: Penguin Random House-Vintage, 2015.*
O'Brien, Edna. The Country Girls. Novel. 1960. (Kingsley Amis Award).
_____. The Country Girls. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
_____. Las chicas de campo.
_____. Girl with Green Eyes. Novel. 1962. (Banned and burnt in Ireland).
_____. Girl with Green Eyes. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
_____. La chica de ojos verdes.
_____. Girls in Their Married Bliss. Novel. 1964. (Banned and burnt in Ireland).
_____. Chicas felizmente casadas.
_____. Chica de campo. Memoir. (Irish Book Award 2012).
_____. Girl. Novel. Penguin Random House, 2019.
_____. La chica. Trans. Ana Mata Buil. (Lumen narrativa). Barcelona: Penguin Random House-Lumen, 2019.
Oates, Joyce Carol. A Fair Maiden. (An Otto Penzler Book).
_____. Una hermosa doncella.
Redondo, Dolores. Los privilegios del ángel. Novel. 2009. (Split personality, impersonation, domestic violence, traumas).
_____. Los privilegios del ángel. (Booket). Barcelona: Planeta-Destino, 2021.*
Sedgwick, Anne Douglas. The Little French Girl. Fiction. c. 1924.
Shaw, Irwin. "Las chicas con sus vestidos de verano." In Antología del cuento norteamericano. Ed. Richard Ford. Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg / Círculo de Lectores, 2002. 635-43.*
Spark, Muriel. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Novel. London: Macmillan, 1961.
_____. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. New York: The New Yorker, 1971.
_____. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965. Rpt. 1962 (2), 1969 (3), 1971 (2), 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977 (2), 1978, 1979, 1980.*
Spyri, J. Heidi. (Colección Iris). Barcelona: Bruguera, c. 1959.
_____. Heidi. (Historias Infantil, 9). Barcelona: Bruguera.
_____. Otra vez Heidi. (Historias Infantil, 10). Barcelona: Bruguera.
Tennant, Emma. Girlitude: A Portrait of the 50s and 60s. London: Cape, c. 1999.
Tondeur, Louise. The Haven Home for Delinquent Girls. London: Headline Review, c. 2005.
Trollope, Joanna. The Men and the Girls. Novel. London: Transworld-Black Swan.
Tu, Jessie. A Lonely Girl Is a Dangerous Thing. C. 2021.
Umbral, Francisco. Las ninfas. Novel. (Destinolibro, 55). Barcelona: Destino, 1975. (Premio Nadal, 1975).
Waller, Edmund. "To a very young Lady." From Poems, 1664. In The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse. Ed. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934. Rpt. 1938, 1942, 1946. 445-6.*
Weston, Carol. The Diary of Melanie Martin. Children's book.
_____. Melanie Martin Goes Dutch. Children's book.
_____. With Love from Spain, Melanie Martin. Children's book. New York: Random House-Dell Yearling, 2004.*
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Pioneer Girl.
Williams, Joy. "Tren." In Antología del cuento norteamericano. Ed. Richard Ford. Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg / Círculo de Lectores, 2002. 1096-1113.*
Music
Beethoven, Ludwig van. "Schilderung eines Mädchens" WoO 107. 1782. (Anon. lyrics). In Beethoven, Lieder. 3 CDs. Hamburg: Polygram-Deutsche Grammophon, 1997.*
Gréco, Juliette. "Jolie môme." Song by Léo Ferré. TV, 1961. YouTube (Nonosserie Nonosserie) 22 Nov. 2016.*
2017
Paintings
Khnopff, Fernand. "Portrait of Jeanne Kefer." Painting. 1885. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1405079024735981&set=a.125648826012347
2026
Monet. Girls in a Row Boat. Painting. 1887.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=996187972637562&set=a.507467674842930
2025
Video
Shrier, Abigail. "What's the Matter with Girls Today? Teen Mental Health & the Transgender Trend – with Abigail Shrier." Video interview by Benjamin Boyce. YouTube (Benjamin A Boyce) 4 July 2020.*
2020
See also Adolescence; Teenagers; Children; Women's studies.
